Finally!

Progressives are finally stepping up and making our voices heard. As of this week, over 65 house members have made it know to President Obama and Speaker Pelosi that they will not, under any circumstances, vote for a health care reform bill that does not include a public option! Also, the AFL-CIO has also said that they will not support any representative that does not vote for a public option in any upcoming election.

Perhaps now the democrats will do what they have needed to all along and push health care reform through. When I say health care reform, I mean real actual health care reform and not a watered down version that might appease the GOP. At this point, republicans are the person that says OK to Chinese food for dinner but refuses to order anything off the menu. They say they want health care reform but they say no to single payer, no to public option, and no to co-ops. What is left to say yes to?

If the GOP is not going to play any form of ball, why are we continuing to cater to them? Democrats have the presidency, a 70 seat majority in the house and a filibuster proof 60 seat majority in the senate. The people elected the democratic party with a very resounding yes! It is time for them to step up and reform health care. Perhaps this is the fire that they needed to get it done.

The Beginning

Here it is... My very first post on The Liberalist Center. Some people blog because they love sharing their thoughts with total strangers. Some people blog because they have a lot of spare time. Some people blog because they are frustrated. I am the latter. I am a 26 year old, college educated female and I am disgusted by what is going on in American Politics at the moment. We live in a country in which over 45 million people are living without health care, but the discussion that we are having is about socialism, Nazism, and forced euthanasia. What on earth is wrong with our country?

We consider ourselves to be a civilized nation but we cannot have an intellectual discussion about health care reform. The conservative right is twisting and manipulating the information available to people in order to strike fear in the uneducated population. They are not offering solutions. They are happy with the status quot. They are content to accept campaign financing from insurance companies and, in return, they will do their best to keep the American people right where they want them - dependent on large insurance companies for mediocre, incredibly expensive medical care. If you oppose the current proposal for health care reform, offer a solution. We live in a country where medicine is a for profit business that the government has allowed to grow into a monster and it is killing the average American - if not literally, then financially. Please, offer a solution, or sit down, shut up, and let the Democratic party step up and help the average person get the health care coverage that they so desperately need.